After reading the paragraphs about federal holidays, browse through the holidays listed on the site above and choose one from January, February or March that interests you.
Use Microsoft 365 to record your information.
Click the link for your chosen holiday to get more information.
Copy and paste the web address for the holiday page onto your document
Consider what information would help you to convince the government to make that holiday a federal holiday.
Look for information in the article that would support your argument.
DO NOT copy and paste information directly from the webpage to your document.
Read the information that supports your argument, then move to your document and write down the info in your own words.
Examples of former astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Michael Collins, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Chuck Yeager, Werner VonBraun, Eugene Krantz, Robert Goddard, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Christa McAuliffe, Sally Ride, Homer Hickam, etc.
All grades:
http://login.microsoftonline.com5th Grade:
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/After reading the paragraphs about federal holidays, browse through the holidays listed on the site above and choose one from January, February or March that interests you.
6th Grade:
http://www.icivics.org/login7th Grade:
8th Grade:
Examples of former astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Michael Collins, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Chuck Yeager, Werner VonBraun, Eugene Krantz, Robert Goddard, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Christa McAuliffe, Sally Ride, Homer Hickam, etc.http://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/2013astroclass.html#.VBxWjS5dWZY
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/ascanbio.html
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/astrobio_former.html
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/more.html
http://www.biography.com/people/groups/famous-astronauts
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